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A Cat Food called Ron

Categories: cat-comments, wot-you-said-and-wot-i-thought-about-it

Tags: cats

Date: 06 March 2010 08:18:03

A special Hello to Ian & Agatha who have been discussing French cat noises - last post Ian asked about the noises a cat made in France. I wrote a post replying, but - because I was in a hurry - I messed up the quoting tool and the whole post was a mess. So I deleted it. Agatha's already mentioned the ronn-ronning, but here (hopefully tidied up a bit!) is the post I was going to post earlier in the week...

Oh...I go to find the draft and I find I've deleted it!!! I really am not very good at this Techno-lark, am I? It's a good job Mr D is my Very Own IT Technician!

So, to recap: To me, French meeowing and meeping sounds just like English meeows and meeps, but my on-line French dictionary says (and this is where I messed up last time. Let's see if I can do any better this time round...):

meow' found in these entries:
French:
miauler


meow: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2010





















meow (cats' sound) miaulement nm
meow (like cat) miauler v
meow (cats' sound) miaulement nm


Agatha's mentioned "ron-ron" which is the French "purr". We refer to the dictionary again:









purr:
E

Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:
purr

  1. noun (of cat, engine) ronronnement m.



  1. intransitive verb (cat, engine) ronronner.



So it appears that Parisian cats might be understood by the more provincial felines, but whether they would understand the local patois I don't know. I suspect the Parisian cats might be a little supercilious and look down their whiskers at the locals. But maybe I'm stereotyping here!


The reason I mention cat food in the title is that there used to be a French cat food called Ron-Ron. Manda*, our cat when we lived in Milton Keynes, used to really like this cat food, so whenever we came back from holiday we would bring her some as a present...

"So, Dormouse, what souvenirs did you bring back from France?"

"A bottle of wine and ten tins of cat food..."


Sadly, Ron-Ron no longer appears to exist - globalization has even taken over the pet food world, with Sheba, Felix, Whiskas and Go-Cat/Friskies being the main choices available.


*Manda lived to a ripe old age of 19 1/2 despite beiong diabetic for the last 5 years of her life, and neding 2 insulin injections a day. She was a beautiful "calico" cat.


OK. Let's see if I've messed up the quotes this time! Press "Publish", Dormouse!

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